The Cultural Nom Of a BLACK SOCIETY

THE DELHI GAN RAPE CASE HAS REALLY SHATTERED ME.  If this is the world that we live in the world should end soon .When I tweeted against the rapists yesterday I got a hell lotso replies saying that women should wear Burkhas ? If this does not rage you then what will…?Every time there's a rape, I feel guilty for being a part of a society that will have arm chair outrage and get on with life!The same society that teaches women to be careful not to get raped instead of teaching them not to RAPE! Rape is the matter of grave concern and it is definitely not an IPL to decide which city is best and which one is worst. Is my country gone to dogs already? 

The Protest against
the most wicked acts of all time.

 What concerns me and should concern everyone for that matter inherent sexism that comes along with ignoring the women when she denies her consent . By doing our society just doesn't believe women who doesn’t agree to something and not just in cases of rape. Society in itself has  got a problem in accepting the fact that NO MEANS NO!!!!! Apart from the fact what also can be deemed as rape is is when women says nothing. As peculiar as it sounds silence does not mean yes, not even close. Many women are blamed for the rape committed against her when she was too scared to speak or too intoxicated or drugged.

There was this movie based on a true story Saatchya Aaat Gharat. The movie had this man accused of rape and was asked was he guilty ? What he said came not only as a shock but raged us to an extent. He outsmarted the judge saying " If the jar was kept open , Why should I be guilty of checking  the contents in it !" This made me so furious that a button number 4 on remote control knows it(I pressed it so hard that it became dysfunctional since then and from then on if we had to tune in to channel that has 4 in it, say 34 we played 35 and reversed it back.) I just cant stand this injustice and this is the thing that provokes me. Sincerely speaking you raped her because her clothes provoked you , I should now break your face since its your stupidity that Provokes me.

I don’t only have Men to accuse of this disgusting act. Women , some might think, putting the revealing dress on , would make her look Gaga in male world. I have one kind suggestion to make to these girls," if Cinderella can get her prince charming without getting her dress off then so can you." Also something to men who say that dress had everything to do with my behavior , " Its just a Dress not a YES!".What I also feel the best gift a father can give her daughter on 13th birthday is a GUN!!

Getting back to the topic of what action do these rapist deserve? Mahatma Gandhi once said an eye to an eye ends up making everyone blind. Rapists deserve it high time.

Just say "NO!" to an institutionalized rape culture. Don’t just vote for women's rights CARE FOR IT!!!!  Our women Mother, Sister, Wife , Daughter, Friend want to be safe lets be responsible for them.

Let us all be responsible for
the women in our society.

The Police are doing there jobs very well. In a recent case there effort of catching the culprit so quickly  is really commendable , as they have in done in many cases prior to these as well. But can they think of a way to instill fear of repercussion in a potential offender?

Media Faisco

Stereotypical Expectation 

This might actually sound like a cliché when general expectation form media is to be neutral about something. By neutral I mean absolutely unsided about the happenings. The first and the foremost thing that applies to journalism is to report and telecast the news as and when it is happened. But with set of expectation you should have born 30 years earlier or in different country altogether. Today I am going to speak about both electronic and publishing media. What I will also do is try and offer solutions. People on social networking sites know me as the one who  puts the question articulately but has no answers. They had a point back then. But then happened " What Young India Wants?" , a book by Chetan Bhagat. While Chetan has inspired the masses to read , he also has inspired me to shape my writings  The book is a collection of essays where in the author takes a situation , deals with it in most fluent manner and tries to offer a solution , how-so-ever "Juvenile". I will try to do the same. Lets dig!

Publishing Media

Let me start this with Publishing Media. I find one problem very serious about it. Newspaper is not about the news anymore. It is about full page ads , Classified crap, Supplements and more supplements of Horse Shit. The shit consists of houses with lake view or mountain view, birth or death anniversary of tycoon  ,some cold cream ads, some engineering classes , some commercial schemes, and a long list of products we hardly know even exist. Are these things important to us in hunter gatherer sense of way? NO! a big NO. What are we then? Consumers! Consumers of Life-Style Obsession. What the publishing media thinks these days is Murder , Crime , Poverty  these things don’t concern me what concerns me is Celebrity Magazines , Television with 500 Channels , Some guy's name on my underwear (Rogaine , Viagra, Olestra, Allen Solley ). The moral of all of this remains the same."All this life we buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have ,For the people we don’t like"

I stay in Pune and  I can say this thing blindfolded. No youth of this generation can afford a flat more than 70 lacks(Godsons excluded) ,even now it is a very very generous sum, and yet what I see on front page in Crystal Houses located on the suburbs of the city (5 out of 7 days). Gone are the days when front page meant something to us. Now a days any Dickhead can be there occupying that space. What's overhyped now is Page 3. The pary thrown by tycoons, politicos and other VIP events. Ask me then where is the news. Oh, it is there on pages 2,10, 16 respectively. I am not even undercounting. All the other pages are filled with Classified , Commercials and Expert (actual life Idiots, but I will get back to it) opinions. These are the problems an average indian is having against publishing media. (Lets Dig deeper)

E-Media (Electronic Media) 

E media activity on present day can be analyzed as 30% bolly masala( serials included),30% Cricket, 20% tele brands, 10% ads , 10% news. The work  definition is as follows,

Purana Jamana:- Report the News

Uske Baad wala Jamana:- Make the News

Aaj Kal ka Jamana:- Fake It and then Break It

Actually I never had a problem starting with something , but now am in dilemma as to where do I begin. Lets start. E media overhypes trivial things and no importance is given to real sensitive stuff. I have a quintessential example. A few weeks earlier a political tycoon was deceased. There was apublic funeral for him, but the way media handled was just disgusting. The whole day and I mean entire 24 hours the news channels went on showing the rally , the mammoth crowd  and the legendry politician. Sure, all of the state grieved on that day but media people should have known where to draw a line. The sensitive matter on other hand was dealt only with a sentence " Kasab, the terrorist, is hung and lives no more  ." there was some sort of info of him being infected with Dengue but no medical reports were released , neither did anybody get to see his dead body nor the hanging procedure, no ,nothing!!! Just like that.

Next thing they are doing is to offer astronomical solutions to existential problems. There is this guy called Rajat Shamra, one of the biggest aceholes (you know what I mean) of Indian Journalism. He claims himself to be a scion to have invented Breaking News and also Janta ki Adalat , and everybody knows Breaking news had done to media what pen drives have done to computer. whatever be the situation they are always linked to Chudailys , Pralaya, Kutta, Billi and Rajat Sharma is the one who breaks it to you every single day. For me he is the man who created news channel simply out of Punar Janam and Paapi Log, all the way from the programs about reincarnation to creating a nation of idiots.

What an Ass hole!!! ( I mean it )

And when time is good some actual news comes into picture. Oh yes we get the news form the strip that is running at the bottom of Tv set. If you are lucky enough you can also catch a sorry looking news  reader and if you are terribly lucky you get two readers who have nothing to do apart form complementing each other. What the hell goes on in those news rooms I wonder!

Cricket !! (Oh you will love this Para) . Every Indian is entitled to have a opinion about cricket but media are not entitled to telecast every single crap that comes there way. What they do is

Step 1:- Take a Issue( Currently dysfunctional Indian Team)

Step 2:- They find bunch of ugliest looking idiots who off-course has got the opinion

Step 3:- They will ask him some irrelevant question and never let him complete his sentence.

Step 4:- They will make them fight verbally with each other. Damn the topic, there egos are at stake now

Step 5:- One who is conducting the debate will announce the show is ending whilst the idiots , yes the ugliest idiots are still fighting in the backyard.

The good reason for calling them idiots is having limited cricket they opine about the God of cricket. These very people cant even hold a bat cant go for a walk single day in there lives say something slanderous about Sachin Ramesh Tendlkar. The stupid fuck that they are don’t even know sachin is holding his bat for as long as 7300 days in field.(Mind It!) Been running like a school boy for last two decades. He is the one who has child like enthusiasm about everything. We all know that retirement is part & parcel of the game but who the fuck are these people who impose the retirement on SRT. One such bastard is Monindar Amarnath!He comes up passing cluster fuck statements like "Sachin should have retired after 2003 world cup" , also  he said in 2007 Dhoni should not be a captain of Indian team. One month later India won the T-20 world cup under his captaincy after a couple of years we won Champions league 2010 that too under his captaincy and a year later won a 50 over Worldcup. I have nothing against this guy but he should stop considering himself a War hero. If so then it is high time he is reminded that this is a peace time.  Seriousy no respect form me … not like this!!

When I was a child TV serials were telecasted once a week. Be it Alif Laila, Shaktimaan, Suraag etc etc. However popular be the serial it was telecasted once a week. All we discussed was what would air for the upcoming week. Now a days serials are replaced by fancy word Soaps (specifically Soap Opera), which shows the show 6 out of seven days. The media don’t think that is enough so they run psychotic shows like Saans and the city to tell the audience whatz next to happen. There was the time when suspense had a vital role play in pursuing a serial but the Media has killed it now a days.

As I said I will offer solutions to these problems.

Publishing media

• Reduce the number of pages. Nobody reads the whole newspaper on week days.
• Glamorizing everything is no compromise for a less hi-fi story. People require truth not the manufactured version of it.
• Use the supplements  only when required. This is not a exam hall just to be remembered.
• Private ads should not feature more than a square of 8"X8"on page 4 or 6 whichever is convenient.
•   Always remember Freedom Fighters like Bal Gangadhar Tilak started Kesri Newspaper with sole intention of awakening the masses for freedom struggle against the Britshers.  They  might be less glamorous than you are but were equally effective. Some of his editorials are even at Library of Oxford and Cambridge. They were effective , you could be too. Give it a thought at least.

E-Media

• Telecast the news like the happenings in Parliament houses. The channels like Lok Sabha and Rajya  Sabha are telecasted only 3 hours per day. You could do it too. Telecast only the news part.
• No Astrology or Serial Crap is required. People are anyways bored of watching the marathon telecast of Balika Vadhu / Godh Bharai /CID / Crime Patrol that they can take it no more.
• Experts chosen should be publically respectably. If you don’t find one , its okay too. Conclusion is anyways ours to make with or without his opinion.
• Funeral/Auctions/Celebrity Events should not be telecasted for days and days . It is a high time that you are reminded of it.
• One mans tool is another man's weapon. Same holds true for Journalism . But Stop toying with it and feed us with some serious stuff.
• Always remember the legend Bhagat Singh. He got himself arrested so that People of India would listen to his voice through media. The media guys then were so articulate that they published What he had to say as he said it no more, no less.Notice the level of faith Bhagat had in media back then. The move was totally successful and thanks to Media people then. If same thing has to happen today ask yourself just this question "Will Bhagat Singh trust us? Could we live up to his expectation?".(since you so masala typically handle news that was meant to be serious)  Only then can we have this media problem handled.

Ricky Pointing

Legend retires today, and from this moment on there will only be nice things said about him.

Good Batsman ship overshadowed his
fielding brilliance 

Ricky pointing came out that very typical Australian mould of batsman. He was a quintessential Aussie batsman in style and approach. The good fielder as well but his batting brillance overshadowed it a little.

Superb near 2 decade international career from Ponting, who will go down as one of the all time greats. An excellent cricketer who made many achievements a reality - 3 consecutive ODI World Cup wins (2 as captain), back-to-back centuries in his 100th Test, 5-0 Ashes victory, first (and currently only) player to be involved in at least 100 Test match wins just to name a few. Successful captain, superb batsman and an exceptional fielder. Many valuable contributions over the years will most certainly be remembered.

After scoring 25th Test Century.

It is rightly said that the captain is as good as a team. Reading this sentence in reverse order is what pointing specializes in . As a opposition captain he was ruthless, Pointing was more Stylish batsman, and a brilliant fielder.  Aggressive is Pointing's  middle name. Agony to watch him piling on the runs against your country. Retirement of Pointing and Tendulkar nearing retirement marks a spot from where Cricket will never be the same.Even though my country won 2011 wc , ur innings in 2003 final against us still hurts. Every Indian shares a passionate hate for you since that very innings. Shane Warne had the nightmares looking Sachin bat in Sharjah, but every Indian has nightmares even now thinking of 2003 WC Final. Ricky was on rampage that day.

Only Captain for Aus to go down as the one to have
won successive World cups.

I hear a lot of people say that Pointing was blessed with crucial players which improved his captaincy. True from a captain perspective, Not true form a player perspectives. His individual batting or fielding ability stayed intact throughout his carrier. You see Cricket analysts are bound to compare players. So when it comes to compare somebody of his class in a cricket worldwide, I see no one. You may answer when asked about Great Batsman of all times(SRT). Same holds true when asked about Great Captain of all time(Imraan Khan). When both these questions are compounded my answer would be Ricky Pointing. He had dual responsibility but more importantly he had the stuff within him with which legends are made of.

Agonizing times after losing Ashes 09. 

Where , I think, Pointing was wrong is choosing this moment for retirement. After the retirement of the key players he had to become a molder from a manager. His captaincy and team strength were exposed after there retirement. If one looks at the moment or the manner in which great captains Border, Imraan khan , Lara took retirement , Pointing will go on wrong side. He, should have retired as a captain but instead had to retire in  a manner  like removing the burden of bearing with a old out of form batsman from the team(like Ganguly in this years IPL). Ashes loses in England as well as in Australia dented his carrier as a Captain. That was the only time he was in news for the wrong reasons. The  pressure of being the "only" star batsman of the team took toll on his batting and captaincy. At one point Pointing was to remembered as the cricketer who brought 2 World cups(2007,2009) for his country but  so deep were the wounds of losing ashes and his ambiguous tactics that he will be thought as the captain who lost 3 Ashes (2005,2009, 2010-11).

Pointing's Double Century Stand(221)
against India at Adelaide Oval 

Arrogant, Aggressive , skillfully with the dash of panache. Watching Oz cricket 5:00 am in the morning will never be the same again. There is a department in which Ricky scores more than players of his competition. That is handling pressure situations. Ricky is the master of handling situations like these. Even in last World Cup (2011) they lost to India, a lone fighter Pointing made his century. It was do or die for both the teams and every Indian was traumatized since an average Indian knows what is it like when Pointing scores a century. Also for one thing Ricky was always superior in temperament. There was healthy competition for all the records that mattered and we enjoyed the tussle between Sachin and Pointing. With age both face the same problem and yet Pointing is the first one to realize that. He realizes the simple fact that though he is enjoying the game, his good enough is not good enough for the team . So while Indian pride themselves having witnessed  Sachin's  century of 100 , Pointing involved in 100 Test wins for Australia is huge compared to a personal milestone of the former.

While other people are welcome to say that Pointing had worldclass talent in his team which made his team aggressive , but what they comfortably ignore is the fact that he was audacious enough to take over a team after the retirement of key players.

…..Your retirement is one more reason to quit watching Test Cricket. Great Puller and Great Driver….Enriched the game by his feats..........RICKY POINTING!!!!

Farewell Pointing